This article really deserves the Gordon White Prize 🏆

A statement from Sally Kornbluth, President of MIT

Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t

New paper➡️“Disappearing Research: Academic Control and Self-Censorship in China.”Elizabeth Plantan and I reveal how China’s Party-State controls research and how that affected the landscape of social science scholarship since 1985. Research is disappearing. 1/7 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

The 90-Day Rush to Get Goods Out of China—American and Chinese firms are racing to clear a backlog of orders during a pause in trade war hostilities Hannah Miao Jason Douglas wsj.com/economy/trade/… wsj.com/economy/trade/…

I could have never conceived that the U.S. President would be far more aggressive against a great university than he would be against a Russian dictator engaged in invading a U.S. ally. Why is it smart to starve cancer research, students on financial aid, innovation in public

Excited to share this new report examining what Apple's supply chain can tell us about trade in tech and electronics, along with Vishnu Venugopalan via American Enterprise Institute aei.org/research-produ…

The US and China have a new framework to de-escalate. Whether that'll be durable is unclear. What is clear is that China can and will weaponize its export dominance. We discuss what the trade war teaches us about China's economy in our new RAND Commentary. 1/

For your weekend reading pleasure... My first piece for The Atlantic is up. It's my take on what is going on at a macro level across the world. I hope you enjoy it, or they will not ask me to do another one: theatlantic.com/economy/archiv…

Despite all the challenges in US-China relations, Chinese food here is getting increasingly authentic. A new Cantonese restaurant just opened in Pentagon City, amongst other many great options (mostly Sichuanese cuisine) in the area.

Let's put it this way, China has exported a mountain of potential IPs to the US by allowing these high achieving engineers to study and work in the US. It makes no sense to put up any barriers to this highly beneficial process (to the US).

Happy to share this roundtable review published by Brookings Foreign Policy, where my review is "On China and the world, America has a choice." brookings.edu/articles/does-…

We are hiring multiple TT Assistant Professors in Int’l Security (broadly defined but we take “international” seriously), Public Administration (broadly), and Public Policy (esp. Technology). See the ad for key information: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30182 1/3

Happy to contribute to a good South China Morning Post piece on new Party rules about commissions and leading groups I do not think they signal Xi losing power or planning for succession; they likely formalize his authority They resemble the Central Committee work rules passed in 2020 1/3

How can anyone defend this kind of governance?

One of the foundational ideas of investment is diversification.Turns out its really hard to do that when profits in the US are now driven by tech and are more concentrated than ever in the top 1% of firms. New Data from Aidan Regan show how extreme it is: democracychallenged.com/2025/07/24/win…

Why Every China Watcher Must Be on WeChat None of this is to glorify WeChat itself – it’s simply the reality of China’s digital ecosystem today. pekingnology.com/p/why-every-ch…